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Baa-ck to basics: Lamb a popular option on Christmas
19 Dec 2022Lamb looks set to be the meat of choice for many people in New Zealand this Christmas, according to a survey.
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'Scary in a nice way': Sam Neill finds balance among the vines
Country Life: From sinister bad guy to gentleman winegrower, it's all in a season's work for veteran New Zealand actor Sam Neill. Audio
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On the farm - a wrap of conditions around NZ
Country Life - Heavy rain in Pukekohe mid-week made the ground too wet to dig potatoes or lift onions and cherry picking is underway in Otago.
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Telethon raises enough to buy more than a million feeds
16 Dec 2022A rural charity raised enough food for 1.2 million meals during a 13-and-a-half hour telethon on Thursday.
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Australian rural services giant Elders buys into PGG Wrightson
One of Australia's largest agribusinesses has bought a strategic stake in New Zealand's biggest public rural services firm.
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Rural telethon on to meat need of foodbanks
15 Dec 2022The country's first rural telethon with the ambitious aim of raising one million meals to help fill foodbanks for an entire year has begun this morning.
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Mussels promoted to fight toxic algae bloom
14 Dec 2022Mussels could soon be used to fight algae bloom in Canterbury's waterways.
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Dangerous building forces cancellation of Bluff food festival
14 Dec 2022It is the third year in the past four the Bluff Oyster and Food Festival has been cancelled.
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Plans for supplementary feed 'out the window' thanks to unseasonal heavy rainfall
A Northland farmer says wet weather has been wreaking havoc on his efforts to grow supplementary feed.
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Marlborough winemakers celebrate UK Tesco contract and huge US market growth
13 Dec 2022The US and UK markets continue to lap up New Zealand wines with our sustainability and geographic advantages sealing lucrative deals.
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'Quite frightening' drop in wool prices has farmers worried
Slowing international demand for wool means farmers are getting lower prices for their clip.
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Sanford orders hybrid diesel-electric boat in hopes of reducing emissions
13 Dec 2022Fishing company Sanford has ordered a new hybrid boat which it hopes will help reduce emissions.
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Food prices rise at fastest rate in 14 years
Stats NZ says the annual increase for food prices is 10.7 percent in November, the highest since September 2008.
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New oyster hatchery aims to strengthen New Zealand production
A new $5 million hatchery in Nelson is aiming to ensure a reliable supply of oyster spat for New Zealand's largest oyster producer, Moana New Zealand.
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RSE worker treatment like 'slavery', says commissioner
12 Dec 2022Unreasonable pay deductions, poor access to healthcare, grossly inadequate housing and denial of personal and cultural freedoms were detailed in a report led by the Commissioner. Audio
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How a young country-school teacher is using farm lessons in her classroom
11 Dec 2022Teaching wasn't always the plan for Eden Warrender and nor was returning to her old primary school 17 years after leaving. But service to others has always been part of who she is.
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A Year on the Farm: Dagging the ewes to prevent flystrike
Country Life: It's a hot day in the yards as Oxford farmers Alistair and Genna Bird start the pre-summer task of crutching a mob of woolly sheep. Audio
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'It's just like a big jigsaw': From pasture to biodiversity on a Whanganui farm
Country Life: Abundant tuna (eels) and dozens of feasting tui are a great reward for hard work poured into his family's land near Whanganui, Ian Moore says. Audio
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Some farmers' poor record-keeping stunts efforts to deal with M bovis
9 Dec 2022The Ministry for Primary Industries says farmers failing to keep accurate stock movement records are hindering efforts to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis.
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Set loose: Survival rate of snapper returned to sea studied
9 Dec 2022A new study on the survivial rates of snapper that are caught, then released, could help fishers save hundreds of thousands of fish per year and improve sustainability.
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Beef, sheep meat prices tipped to fall as belts tighten offshore
Sheep prices are likely to decrease more significantly than beef, according to one analyst.
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Open ocean salmon farm plan now in limbo
9 Dec 2022A plan for the country's first open ocean salmon farm is now in limbo, and could be heading to court. Audio
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Corn harvests delayed by miserable spell of weather
An unseasonably cold and wet spring in Gisborne has delayed corn harvests, one of the country's largest sweet corn producers says.
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On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
Country Life: Rain has come back to Northland; silage making is in full swing in Canterbury and vineyards are at the tail end of shoot thinning in Central Otago.
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